Cheptegei, whose 27:56 PR was 34 second better than anyone else in the field,  did all of the work after taking the lead from Japan's Keisuke Nakatani just after four miles and he was rewarded with the victory. Ethiopia's Tsegaye Mekonnen, who won the Dubai Marathon in 2:04 in January, was listed on the entries when they came out on Sunday but did not start. *IAAF